The Toronto Maple Leafs Just Keep Winning, Part 2
In part two of his three-part series on the Maple Leafs Michael Clifford looks at their goaltending and team comps.
Fantasy Hockey: Eastern Conference Goaltenders and Blow-Up Rates
Last week, I wrote about how a team’s possession rates probably won’t make a goalie’s stats much worse unless the goalie sucked to begin with (Steve Mason), but how a team’s penalty killing can affect just about any goaltender for better (James Reimer in 2013) or for worse (James Reimer from 2010-2012). There’s a concept […]
Fantasy Hockey: Evaluating and Projecting Goaltenders
How good a goaltender projects to be is a very precarious proposition. There are so many mitigating factors that play into how a goaltender performs at the NHL level that anyone who proclaims that they know a certain goaltender will be elite before they actually prove it over a large sample (there’s no real baseline, but […]